The Cricket on the Hearth, a Fairy Tale of Home

1846
8vo., half bound morocco , seventh edition
With Illustrations by Maclise, Stanfield, Doyle, Leech, and Landseer
1
English
£25.
S028.3b; V09.23; C025.03/C025.04
E6/F6
Library, bookcase over fireplace, item 30

The complete work, every page inlaid in Writing Paper to octavo size.
This volume, like the preceding, exhibits numerous alterations and excisions, entirely in the Author's Autograph. His directions for variation of voice and gesture are also very minute, and amply show the extreme conscientiousness with which he had prepared himself for executing the arduous task he had set before him.